A post on Facebook and only two lines: “S.Bernardo-Cinelandia Park Pallacanestro Cantù announces that it has terminated the existing contract with the athlete Robert Johnson“. Thus ends the adventure in Brianza of the American basketball player, who traveled at full speed with the Brianza club (an average of 19 points per game). But that is a convinced No Vax for religious reasons. Since last January 10, with the entry into force of the new anti-Covid rules, the reinforced Green Pass is required for amateur training and matches (this is how the A2 series in which Pallacanestro Cantù plays) is considered.
The company tried to ask for an exemption as Johnson has a work visa identical to those of the Serie A players to arrive in Italy. Where, paradoxically, he could play. Appeal rejected. So Johnson was forced to choose: either get vaccinated, or stay out of the team. Or, of course, change companies. The choice, for the good of all, was the very last: Johnson will end up in Poland, at the Legia Kosz. Cantù will replace him without haste and also looks to Luca Vitali, who is leaving Brescia, as a reinforcement to look for promotion.
Johnson will go down in history as the first case in Italy of a player removed from a club because he was unable to train with his team-mates and play in the league, as happened on Sunday in the defeat against Treviglio.
